Listen to over 608,000 tracks of Classical, Jazz, Blues, World and Chinese music and access biographies of composers, discographies, opera synopses and libretti, and educational resources for GCSE and A-Level.
Listen in the library or at home. Sign in using your library card number.
• Visit Naxos Music Library
• Introductory video
• Search tools video
• Playlists video

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is a website designed to use music to help people reconnect with their most powerful memories. Select from different genres of music or different decades.

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The archive is available for personal, educational or research purposes. There are over 33,000 clips from across the world, including sound effects from TV and Radio programs, plus 15,000 recordings from the Natural History Unit archive. Listen, or design your own sounds.

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Provides access to thousands of digitized videos and television programmes from the BFI National Archive (and partner organizations) to browse and enjoy, research or study.
Available ONLY via library computers or self-service tablets.
• Visit BFI Replay
• Introduction and video
• Topic based activities

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An online encyclopaedia of British film and television featuring hundreds of hours of film and television clips, supplemented by rich and authoritative contextual material by expert writers, thousands of stills, posters and press books and an education zone for schools.
Available ONLY via library computers or self-service tablets.

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Incorporating the Archive of African American Music, The European Blues Association (EBA) promotes performances of African American Music in its many forms; provides participative educational activities for young people and adults; encourages research into African American Music and its cultural heritage, and in partnership with the University of Gloucestershire, facilitates study and discussion of issues related to the development of Black Music and its relationships with pop music and culture.

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Making a playlist of personally meaningful music
can help people living with dementia
• Playlist for Life
• Resources

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A comprehensive dictionary and thesaurus of current English. Plus grammar resources, including New Hart's Rules and Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage.
Available ONLY via library computers or self-service tablets.

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The largest family history site online with over 4 billion names in worldwide historical records.
Available ONLY via library computers or self-service tablets in libraries, or at the Heritage Hub.
• Ancestry
• Ancestry Support Centre
• Ancestry videos

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The following are available via Pressreader:
• Genealogy Gazette
• Who do you think you are

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The family history database that includes birth, marriage and death records, census data, electoral registers and land tax documents.
Available ONLY via library computers or self-service tablets in libraries, or at the Heritage Hub..
• Findmypast website
• Beginners guide to searching
• Findmypast sitemap
• Findmypast videos
• 1921 Census
• How to search the 1921 Census
• 1939 Register
• Tips on searching the 1939 Register

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Explore hidden histories for every county, district, city and major town. Includes descriptions, photographs and maps.

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This collection provides access to thousands of items selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, offering unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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national and local newspapers and magazines via BorrowBox. Access via your library card number and pin.
• Visit BorrowBox ePress
• Getting started with the app (video)

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Newspaper content dating from the 1700s.
Register with your email address and set a password. Sign in each time to access the full content for free.
Available ONLY via library computers or self-service tablets in libraries, or at the Heritage Hub.
• Visit British Newspaper Archives (BNA)
• Browse by title
• Frequently asked questions
• Searching the BNA (video)
• Using Findmypast and BNA together (video)

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Gloucestershire Newspapers: Find out what papers we have and where we hold them - for the whole county!

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Issues dating from 1860 to the present, made available via the Access to Research database.
Available ONLY via library computers or self-service tablets.

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Print copies of Which? magazine are available at the following libraries: Bishops Cleeve, Cirencester, Coleford, Dursley, Stroud & Tewkesbury.
Access to Which? Online is ONLY available at Cheltenham and Gloucester libraries, please ask staff to sign you in.
For the full Which Reviews, please contact the Ask Us service.
• Ask Us
• Which Online

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Find out about local notices, groups and events that are accessible to anyone living with sight loss.
• Visible eMagazine
• What's On eNewsletter

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Free access to over 30 million academic articles from leading publishers, including science & environment, arts & culture, languages & literature, health & social care, business, history and much more.
This resource is only available via library computers or self-service computers.
• Access to Research website
• Searching guide
• Introductory video

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A combination of each Gazette edition (London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes) under one overarching brand, ‘The Gazette’. Official Newspaper of Record for the UK and a modern, efficient way to disseminate and record official, regulatory and legal information.
• The Gazette
• How to search the Gazette
• Searching the Gazette (video)

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Inform Gloucestershire: Statistics, market research, maps, facts and figures relating to Gloucestershire...

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